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Like many music fans, Taylor Swift's relationship with the "Now That's What I Call Music" series stretches back more than a decade. She and her brother would listen to the series when they were children before Swift became a regular contributor with appearances on 10 albums in the run.
"I had `Now 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,'" the 24-year-old music star said with a smile. "I think now we're at `Now 1,002,042.'"
The series has reached No. 50, a serious milestone for a physical sales survivor that's managed to navigate changes in a digital world to remain relevant, profitable and consistent since its U.S. debut 16 years ago. Despite the availability of popular singles and the general erosion of physical album sales, installment No. 50 was expected to debut atop the Billboard 200 this week, marking the series' 18th No. 1. Only The Beatles have more with 19.
Each installment used to be guaranteed platinum, but sales have dropped below 1 million per release during an industrywide decline. Yet it proportionately remains a factor on the charts and is available on streaming and digital platforms. Earning a spot on a volume's track list still can mean an artist has truly penetrated America's pop cultural consciousness.
"It is confirmation of making a song that has become part of the social fabric and will likely remain that way for a while," said Aloe Blacc. His song "The Man" is on No. 50. "When popular songs are compiled in the `Now' series, you get a snapshot of a moment in time, and to be part of that picture is an honor."
The series — based on a popular British run of the same name that has reached No. 87 — is likely the most successful in modern music history, selling more than 76 million copies in its numbered U.S. series alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It remains popular for reasons that include convenience, brand appeal, format preference and familiarity.
"You have the 50 albums, plus dozens of these `Now'-branded compilations — 'Now That's What I Call Disney,' `Now That's What I Call Dance Music' — it goes on and on and on, and all those things sell, too," said Keith Caulfield, Billboard's associate director of charts/retail. "Not in the way the numbered compilations do, but it's just all gravy. It's such a well-known brand, when a `Now' album comes out, you already know what it is."
Nielsen figures show Vol. 5 was the series' most popular, selling nearly 4.8 million copies. The series remained above the platinum level into 2008, and sales for recent volumes hover around 500,000 — a very solid number in 2014. Vol. 50 was expected to be the 49th straight top 10 debut for the series — and all 50 reached the top 10. Over time, though, the reasons behind that success have changed. "Now" filled a gap when it debuted in 1998 that no longer exists.
"People have to remember back in the day before iTunes, before YouTube, the only way you could actually get the song that you wanted, that you enjoyed, was to purchase it as a CD single in the store or to purchase an album that had the song on it," Caulfield said. "And a lot of the singles from the late `90s were not released as commercial singles."
These days, that's not a problem. So who's buying "Now" discs? And why?
Those are questions that series creators ask constantly. Some of the answers they get from buyers they survey are surprising, others predictable.
While physical album sales tend to skew older these days, "Now" runs against that conventional wisdom. Laura Rutherford, "Now" senior vice president of marketing and operations, says slightly more than half its listeners are 24 or younger. Older listeners 35 to 44 account for just 17 percent of sales.
Familiarity and the technological divide seem to drive those buyers. Studies with "Now" buyers show fans keep coming back for simple reasons: First, they know the line and count on it for cherry-picking hits. As Jeff Moskow, the "Now" head of A&R, puts it: "A lot of these fans have grown up with us. They've grown up with our sound, they've grown up with what we represent and they're very comfortable with our brand."
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And there's the impulse buy. David Bakula, Nielsen's senior vice president of insights, said the series is shrewdly marketed and timed, colorfully hogging up a lot of space at your nearest big box store at key times of year.
"They come out around gifting time," he said. "You get one in the fourth quarter around the holidays. You get one in the first quarter around the Easter gifting time. You get one in the summer when everybody is singing the biggest summer songs of the year."

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The focus in one case is California's constitutional amendment that forbids same-sex marriage. The other case deals with a federal law that denies to those who can marry legally the right to obtain federal benefits that are available to heterosexual married couples.
Supreme Court cases often take twists and turns that limit the scope of the eventual decision. But the justices' action on Friday gives them the chance to say whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals.
The court is embarked on what could be its most significant term involving civil rights in decades. In the area of racial discrimination, the justices already have agreed to decide cases on affirmative action in admission to college and a key part of the Voting Rights Act. The gay marriage cases probably will be argued in March and decisions in all the court's cases are likely by the end of June.
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Yet even as gay marriage is legal, or soon will be, in nine states: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont are the others and the nation's capital, the District of Columbia, it is banned by the state constitutions of 30 others. In Hawaii, a constitutional amendment gives the legislature the power to define marriage as between a man and a woman, and it has done so. Federal courts in California have struck down the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but that ruling and thus gay unions remain on hold while the issue is being appealed.
The high court's decision to hear the federal benefit question, presented as a constitutional challenge to a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, was a virtual certainty because several lower courts struck down the provision of the 1996 law and the justices almost always step in when lower courts invalidate a federal law.
There is nothing that compelled a similar response from the court in the case over California's Proposition 8, the state constitutional ban on gay marriage that voters adopted in 2008 after the state Supreme Court ruled that gay Californians could marry. Indeed, the gay marriage supporters who prevailed in the lower courts urged the Supreme Court to stay out of the case and allow same-sex unions to resume in the nation's largest state.
Even some gay rights activists worried that it was too soon in the evolution of views toward same-sex marriage to ask the justices to intervene and declare that same-sex couples have the same right to marry as heterosexuals. But Theodore Olson, the Washington lawyer who represents Californians who sued over Proposition 8, said he will argue that there is a "fundamental constitutional right to marry for all citizens."
Opponents of gay marriage said Friday they are heartened by the Supreme Court's action.
"We believe that it is significant that the Supreme Court has taken the Prop 8 case. We believe it is a strong signal that the court will reverse the lower courts and uphold Proposition 8. That is the right outcome based on the law and based on the principle that voters hold the ultimate power over basic policy judgments and their decisions are entitled to respect," said John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage and a law professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.
On the other side of the issue, advocates for same-sex unions said the court could easily decide in favor of gay marriage in California without issuing a sweeping national ruling to overturn every state prohibition on marriage.
In striking down Proposition 8, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals crafted a narrow ruling that said because gay Californians already had been given the right to marry, the state could not later take it away. The ruling studiously avoided overarching pronouncements.
"I think the court can easily affirm the 9th Circuit's decision and leave for a later day whether broader bans on marriage are unconstitutional as well," said James Esseks of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The other issue the high court will take on involves a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, known by its acronym DOMA, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman for the purpose of deciding who can receive a range of federal benefits.
Four federal district courts and two appeals courts struck down the provision. Last year, the Obama administration abandoned its defense of the law, but continues to enforce it. House Republicans are now defending DOMA in the courts.
The justices chose for their review the case of 83-year-old Edith Windsor, who sued to challenge a $363,000 federal estate tax bill after her partner of 44 years died in 2009.
Windsor, who goes by Edie, married Thea Spyer in 2007 after doctors told them that Spyer would not live much longer. She suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years. Spyer left everything she had to Windsor.
There is no dispute that if Windsor had been married to a man, her estate tax bill would have been zero.
The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York agreed with a district judge that the provision of DOMA deprived Windsor of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the law.
In both cases, the justices have given themselves a technical way out, involving the legal issue of whether the parties have the required legal standing to bring their challenges, which would allow them to duck all the significant issues raised by opponents and supporters of gay marriage.
The cases are Hollingsworth v. Perry, 12-144, and U.S. v. Windsor, 12-307.
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
Associated Press writer David Crary in New York contributed to this report.


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This Privacy Notice ("Notice") describes how Stericycle Inc. and its affiliates (collectively referred to as "Stericycle", "we", "us" or "our") collects, uses and shares personal data collected in the context of our websites, business contacts, suppliers, current and prospective customers who use Stericycle services or products or users affected by our services (together referred to as "you" or "your"). This Notice also explains your ability to edit, update, correct, or delete your personal data and the security procedures that we have implemented to protect personal data.
In this Notice, you can find out more about:
- We collect personal data, the types of personal data we collect and the purposes for which personal data is collected
- Direct Marketing and how you can manage your marketing preferences
- How we share information within Stericycle and with our service providers, regulators and other third parties
- International Transfers of Personal Data
- Cookies and third-party links
- How we store and protect personal data
- Your rights, including your right to object and how to assert those rights
- Modifications to this Notice
- How you can Contact us for more support.
Important information about Stericycle
The Stericycle entity responsible for your personal data will be the member of Stericycle that originally collects information from or about you. This will be explained in separate privacy notices made available when your personal data are first collected by that Stericycle entity, for example where you or the business you work for engages us to provide a service.
You can find out more about Stericycle at www.stericycle.co.uk or by contacting us using the information in the Contact us section.
When we collect personal data, the types of personal data we collect and the purposes for which personal data is collected
In this section, you can find out more about:
- When we collect personal data
- The types of personal data we collect and how we use personal data
- Legal basis for the processing
When we collect personal data
We may collect personal data about you if you:
- use one of our websites or online services, you are a registered user or chose to register on our websites (Website Users);
- purchase one of our services (Customers);
- are affected by our services (Users);
- work with us as a business partner (Business Partners);
The types of personal data we collect and how we use personal data
Website Users
a. Unregistered Website Users
You may use our websites as an unregistered user without (actively) providing any personal data about you. In this case, Stericycle collects the following metadata that result from your usage of our websites: referral page, date and time of access, type of web browser, IP-address, geographic location as determined by your IP address, operating system and interface, language and version of browser software, session information (such as download errors and page response times).
Your IP-address will be used to enable your access to our websites. The metadata will be used to improve the quality and services of our websites by analysing the usage behaviour of our users.
If you commence direct communications via our websites enquiry form, by telephone or writing to us, the nature of the enquiry (e.g., as tick box selection from service type/careers/other) and your message will also be collected and processed to respond to it and improve our services.
b. Registered Website Users
If you are a registered user or choose to register on a Stericycle website, you may be asked to provide the following personal data about you: first and last name, work phone number, company name, email address, personal telephone number, Stericycle Customer No. or Shred-It Ship to ID, postal address and primary usage. Further, Stericycle will collect user access content.
Stericycle will process such personal data in order to provide you in particular with the services for registered users, verify the legitimacy of your account, to avoid fraudulent accounts being opened, provide you with our products, customer support, compliance trainings, business communications solutions (e.g., answering services, appointment reminders, follow-up services, virtual receptionists), contact form, marketing materials as selected by you, inform you about system issues, comply with legal obligations, and defend, establish and exercise legal claims.
The personal data collected from Website Users is also used to personalize your experience of our websites. We may use such information in the aggregate to understand how you use our services and the resources provided on our websites. We may also use the feedback you provide to improve our services.
If you purchase products from Stericycle, either via a Stericycle website or offline, you may be asked to provide, among other, the following personal data about you, your representative and/or your contact person: first and last name, suffix, credentials, work phone number, personal phone number, facsimile, email address, job title, mailing address, tax identification number, credit card information, billing address, types and amount of products ordered, reseller/promo code, auto-delivery selection, marketing preferences, job information, academy of general dentistry and license.
To provide certain services we may have to process, depending on the services provided, the following personal data about you: professional data; data relating to your physical characteristics; dosimetry monitoring data; health information such as, as applicable, the dose of radiation to which you were exposed, any relevant medical imaging results, pregnancy status and data relating to the foetus, data relating with accidents at work and disabilities; data relating with professional training.
Stericycle will use such personal data to process your order, deliver the products or services ordered, provide customer care services, provide you with marketing materials as selected by you, provide you with Stericycle updates and/or newsletters, to maintain our client relationship management systems, to detect, investigate, report and seek to prevent fraud and anti-money laundering, for example through know-your- customer checks, AML screening and other identity checks, comply with other legal obligations, defend, establish and exercise legal claims. We may also need to conduct credit and fraud checks on business customers and certain officers of your business, such as your directors.
When providing certain services to a Customer to which you are related to (e.g., if you are an employee, a contractor, an apprentice, a trainee, a patient, etc., of our Customer), Stericycle may have to process the following personal data about you (as applicable, depending on the specific service provided): identification data; contact data; professional data; data relating to your physical characteristics; dosimetry monitoring data; health information such as, as applicable, the dose of radiation to which you were exposed, any relevant medical imaging results, pregnancy status and data relating to the foetus, data relating with accidents at work and disabilities; data relating with professional training. Most of the personal data is obtained from our Customer.
We process such personal data in the context of the provision of a service to a Customer and for purposes of providing the services to said Customer. However, we need to process your personal data either because the services provided have an impact on you (e.g., the dosimetry services are intended to measure the radiation to which you were exposed, or the professional training services are provided to you) and/or because we have to comply with legal obligations that imply the processing of your personal data (e.g., we have a legal obligation of reporting the dosimetry results).
Business Partners
If you work with us as a Business Partner or a service provider, we will collect personal data from you, your representative and/or your contact person such as your full name, job title, email address, phone number.
Most of the personal data is obtained directly from you. In addition, we will collect personal data from other public sources such as credit reference agencies.
We use this information to review/assess your suitability as a Business Partner or service provider, to comply with our legal obligations, to detect investigate, report, and seek to prevent fraud and anti-money laundering, for example through know- your-customer checks, AML screening and other identity checks and to meet our obligations under any contracts we have with you, we may also need to conduct credit and fraud checks on your business and certain officers of your business, such as directors.
Legal basis for the processing
We will only collect, use and share your personal data where we are satisfied that we have an appropriate legal basis to do this. We carry out the processing of your personal data on the following legal bases:
- the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. For example, where you purchase our products or services, we will collect your payment information to process your payment and your address to facilitate delivery of the product or service. We will also collect your email address and phone number to update you on the progress of your purchase and to answer any of your queries;
- the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject to. For example, in order to set you up as a business customer or business partner, we are obliged to carry out certain know-your-customer checks to prevent money laundering and fraudulent activities. This will involve the collection and verification of your personal data;
- you have provided your consent to using your personal data, for example if you have agreed to receive marketing communications;
- the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, namely to provide you with our products and services, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we use personal data in the aggregate to understand how Website Users use our services and the resources provided on our websites and use this information to improve our services. For example, we also have a legitimate interest to process the personal data of a contact person in order to facilitate the development of a contractual relationship;
- the processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health. For example, when providing dosimetry services, we will process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations of reporting of the dosimetry results.
In most of the cases, the provision of your personal data is not required by a statutory or contractual obligation. However, where applicable, the provision of your personal data will be necessary to enter into a contract with Stericycle or to receive our services and products as requested by you. In such situations, not providing your personal data may likely result in disadvantages for you, e.g. you may not be able to use the full functionalities of our websites or to receive the products and services requested by you. However, unless otherwise specified, not providing your personal data will not result in legal consequences for you.
In some cases, where the processing of personal data is necessary for purposes of legal reporting (e.g., dosimetry services or professional training services), the provision of your personal data is a statutory requirement. In other cases, the provision of your personal data is a contractual requirement (e.g., for the provision of professional training services when the contract is executed directly with you).
If you would like to find out more about the legal basis for which we process personal data, please contact us at email@example.com
Direct marketing and how you can manage your marketing preferences
How we use personal data to keep you up to date with our products and services
We may use personal data to let you know about our products services that we believe will be of interest to you and/or provide you with our newsletter. We may contact you by email, post, or telephone or through other communication channels that we think you may find helpful. In all cases, we will respect your preferences for how you would like us to manage marketing activity with you.
As a rule, we will obtain your consent prior to sending you marketing materials. We will only contact you with marketing materials without your prior consent if this is permitted by law.
How you can manage your marketing preferences
To protect privacy rights and to ensure you have control over how we manage marketing with you:
- we will take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level and Stericycle will only send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you;
- you can ask us to stop direct marketing at any time ‑ you can ask us to stop sending email marketing, by following the "unsubscribe" link you will find on all the email marketing messages we send you. Alternatively, you can Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please specify whether you would like us to stop all forms of marketing or just a particular type (e.g. email); and
- you can change the way your browser manages cookies, which may be used to deliver online advertising, by following the settings on your browser as explained in Our Cookie Policy.
How we share information within Stericycle and with our service providers, regulators and other third parties
We share your personal data in the manner and for the purposes described below:
- With other Stericycle entities within our group Your personal data will be received by different recipients such as other Stericycle entities. We make such transfers where it is necessary to provide you with our services or to manage our business. For example, we transfer your data to Stericycle, Inc. in the US to operate our websites. Stericycle transfers - in compliance with applicable data protection law - personal data to law enforcement agencies, governmental authorities or other public authorities (or entities appointed by them).
- With third parties who help manage our business and deliver services Stericycle engages external service providers such as legal services, website service providers, marketing service providers, IT support service providers, fulfilment providers, delivery service providers, email administrators, payment processors and customer service providers. When providing such services, the external service providers have access to and process your personal data. We request those external service providers to implement and apply security safeguards to ensure the privacy and security of your personal data. These third parties have agreed to confidentiality restrictions and to use of any personal data we share with them or which they collect on our behalf solely for the purpose of providing the contracted service to us.
- In the event of a corporate merger and acquisition, your personal data will be transferred to the third parties being involved in the merger and acquisition in accordance with applicable law.
International transfers of personal data
The personal data that we collect or receive about you may be transferred to and processed by recipients who are located within and outside your location (such as the US), where the level of data protection may not be equivalent to the level of protection applicable at your location.
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Business update: GM puts 2 engineers on paid leave in recall case
The Associated Press
DETROIT — General Motors has suspended two engineers with pay in the first disciplinary action linked to its delayed recall of more than 2 million small cars for a deadly ignition switch problem.
The move stems from GM's internal investigation of the matter. At congressional hearings last week, lawmakers alleged that at least one company engineer tried to cover up the switch problem. GM CEO Mary Barra promised action against anyone deemed to have acted inappropriately.
Company spokesman Greg Martin would not identify the engineers.
"This is an interim step as we seek the truth about what happened," Barra said in the statement. "It was a difficult decision, but I believe it is best for GM."
GM is recalling 2.6 million compact cars worldwide, mostly Chevrolet Cobalts and Saturn Ions, to replace the switches. The Justice Department and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are investigating GM's slow response to the problem.
During a hearing last week, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., accused GM engineer Ray DeGiorgio of trying to cover up the switch problem. DeGiorgio said in a deposition last year for a lawsuit against GM that he never approved a change to the ignition switch. But McCaskill produced a document from 2006 showing he signed off on a replacement, but with the same part number. Failing to change a part number makes the part harder to track.
Lawmakers were also critical of a decision made within GM's engineering ranks to not implement a proposed fix for the switch because it would be too costly and time-consuming.
Barra acknowledged at the hearing that DeGiorgio still works for GM. She called the failure to change the part number "unacceptable." She also said if inappropriate decisions were made, GM would take action, including firing those involved.
On Thursday, McCaskill said in a statement that "it's about time" GM took action.
"This marks a small step in the right direction for GM to take responsibility for poor — and possibly criminal —decisions that cost lives and put millions of American consumers at risk," she said.
GM would not make DeGiorgio available for an interview. He did not return telephone messages left by The Associated Press. A recording on DeGiorgio's work voicemail says he's away from the office and refers business calls to two other GM employees.
Also Thursday, GM announced a program to recognize employees who speak up when they see something that could affect the safety of customers. "GM employees should raise safety concerns quickly and forcefully, and be recognized for doing so," Barra said in the statement.
The ignition switches on the small cars can unexpectedly slip out of the "run" position to "accessory" or "off." That shuts off the engine and the power-assisted steering and brakes and can cause drivers to lose control of their cars. It also disables the air bags. In many of the crashes, drivers have inexplicably veered off the road or into traffic.
Parts to begin fixing the cars are to start arriving at dealerships on Friday. But Barra has said it likely will take until October before all the cars are repaired.
Shares of GM rose 10 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $33.72 in Thursday afternoon trading.


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Rutherford B. Hayes
19th president (1877-1881)
Background/Early Life
• Rutherford Hayes was born in Ohio and spent nearly his whole life in the state, attending Kenyon College, working as a lawyer in Lower Sandusky and Cincinnati, fighting for Ohio's 23rd Volunteer Infantry, serving as representative and governor for the state, and retiring to Fremont after his presidency.
• His election to president was controversial. As states reported their returns, it became likely that Samuel Tilden, the Democratic nominee, would win the election. But three states were close, and if Hayes won all of them he would have one more electoral vote than Tilden. After a massive investigation and, eventually, a Republican-heavy "Electoral Commission," Hayes was declared the winner despite losing the final popular count by 250,000 votes.
• Democrats attempted to prevent Hayes' win through a filibuster but after a series of meetings with Republicans, ended the delay tactic. No evidence remains to verify what was discussed in these meetings, but historians have speculated that Republicans convinced Democrats to stop the filibuster in exchange for troops to cease propping up the final Reconstruction governments in South Carolina and Louisiana.
How he defined the office
• Hayes did not oversee any major national or international conflicts, or implement any long-term American policies. But he remained scandal-free and represented the nation as an upright statesman.
Successes and failures
• Although Hayes is often most remembered for his decision on Reconstruction, he proved a great administrator. He ushered the United States currency back to full conversion with gold reserves. He implemented reforms in civil service to ensure that government officials received their positions on merit rather than through patronage. Hayes also weeded corruption out of Congress after scandal within President Grant's administration.
• During the Great Railroad Strike in 1877, he ordered troops to troubled areas in order to protect life and property, but the troops were nonetheless used to break the strike. This set a precedent for years of the federal government coming to the aid of state governments and corporations against worker movements.
• He supported a policy of education for Native Americans, resulting in a movement to acculturate tribes to white-American standards. This was seen as a progressive move at the time.
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• On Reconstruction: "My task was to wipe out the color line, to abolish sectionalism, to end the war and bring peace. To do this, I was ready to resort to unusual measures, and to risk my own standing and reputation with my party and the country."


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Proposal to pre-empt animal laws deserves a humane death
In one of the early episodes of "Portlandia," the satirical show that makes fun of all things Portland, Ore., a couple dining out interviews the waitress about their potential chicken dinner.
Specifically, they want to know details of the chicken's diet (sheep's milk, soy and hazelnuts), his free-roaming privileges and roaming area (four acres), whether he had friends and was a happy chicken, and so on. Their server answers patiently, even producing Colin's papers. Colin, that is, the chicken.
So goes the joke on people who get a tad carried away about the quality of life of the animals whose slaughter they ultimately condone and whose flesh they consume. It was, if you'll pardon the expression, delicious.
But the reality side of the factory farm story isn't so tasty. Humane treatment of animals, whether being bred as pets or for display in grocery stores, is a work in progress, the relatively few successes of which are meager testament to our own humanity.
Inasmuch as the way people treat animals reveals their character, the way we mass produce animals for human consumption reveals much about our nation's character. That character is being tested even now on Capitol Hill.
While most eyes this summer have been riveted by human bloodshed from Syria to Egypt, a handful of animal rights advocates have been glued to the farm bill, which, you'll recall, became controversial when House Republicans severed a food stamp provision that customarily was attached.
What may have escaped much notice, however, is an amendment by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, that would pre-empt state and local laws governing food production and other animal-related industries, including puppy mills, confinement of farm animals, animal fighting, shark finning, and the sale of meat from horses, dogs and cats.
Despite strong opposition from animal rights groups as well as more than 200 fellow House and Senate members, King has invoked the Commerce Clause to defend his amendment. He avers that having so many different laws in different places violates the federal government's authority to regulate interstate commerce. One of the problems, as he sees it, is that states such as California that have strong laws about how chickens must be raised (enough room in a cage to stand and spread their wings) can impose their standards on other states that sell their egg products in California.
"The impact of their large market would compel producers in every other state to invest billions to meet the California standard of 'means of production.'"
King, whose legislative history regarding animal welfare is poster material for cruelty (and dunder-headedness) -- he thinks dogfighting is fine and children ought to be able to watch -- also promises that his amendment will put an end to "radical organizations" such as the Humane Society of the United States and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA.)
I probably should confess that I love anything with a heartbeat and there is no humane treatment I could imagine opposing. Do I think we should play classical music for cows as they amble to the slaughter? Oh, why not, if it makes them less anxious?
More to the point, is making a hen's cage a little larger really so cost-prohibitive that we can't manage to make a miserable life a tiny bit less miserable? Is someone's taste for foie gras so worthy of protection that we condone force-feeding cruelly confined ducks until their livers bloat and become diseased?
The list of humans' cruelty to animals is too long and too horrible for this space. The fact that some states aim to protect animals seems to me cause for celebration rather than federal opposition. Here's a thought: Instead of trying to undo what some have done in the spirit of a more humane society, why not encourage other states to become part of the movement?
King, perhaps, represents a certain contingent that holds to a biblical view that animals don't deserve the same consideration as humans. As King said in his defense of dogfighting, there's something wrong when we outlaw dogfights but allow people to fight. The obvious difference is that people who step into the ring have a choice in the matter -- and state-sanctioned torture of animals would seem to undermine the notion that humans are of greater value to the Divine.
The fate of King's amendment will be determined when Congress reconvenes in September. For now, dozens of animal rights organizations, as well as the head of the National Conference of State Legislators, are lobbying hard to kill it.
Humanely, of course.
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Aug. 19, 2010: Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
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In the mid-1970s, Situationist contributor Timothy Wilson with Richard Nisbett conducted one of the best known social psychology experiments of all time. It was strikingly simple and involved asking subjects to assess the quality of hosiery. Situationist contributors Jon Hanson and David Yosifon have described the experiment this way:
Subjects were asked in a bargain store to judge which one of four nylon stocking pantyhose was the best quality. The subjects were not told that the stockings were in fact identical. Wilson and Nisbett presented the stockings to the subjects hanging on racks spaced equal distances apart. As situation would have it, the position of the stockings had a significant effect on the subjects' quality judgments. In particular, moving from left to right, 12% of the subjects judged the first stockings as being the best quality, 17% of the subjects chose the second pair of stockings, 31% of the subjects chose the third pair of stockings, and 40% of the subjects chose the fourth—the most recently viewed pair of stockings. When asked about their respective judgments, most of the subjects attributed their decision to the knit, weave, sheerness, elasticity, or workmanship of the stockings that they chose to be of the best quality. Dispositional qualities of the stocking, if you will. Subjects provided a total of eighty different reasons for their choices. Not one, however, mentioned the position of the stockings, or the relative recency with which the pairs were viewed. None, that is, saw the situation. In fact, when asked whether the position of the stockings could have influenced their judgments, only one subject admitted that position could have been influential. Thus, Wilson and Nisbett conclude that "[w]hat matters . . . is not why the [position] effect occurs but that it occurs and that subjects do not report it or recognize it when it is pointed out to them."
One of the core messages of more recent brain research is that most mental activity happens in the automatic or unconscious region of the brain. The unconscious mind is the platform for a set of mental activities that the brain has relegated beyond awareness for efficiency's sake, so the conscious mind can focus on other things. In his book, "Strangers to Ourselves," Timothy Wilson notes that the brain can absorb about 11 million pieces of information a second, of which it can process about 40 consciously. The unconscious brain handles the rest.
The automatic mind generally takes care of things like muscle control. But it also does more ethereal things. It recognizes patterns and construes situations, searching for danger, opportunities or the unexpected. It also shoves certain memories, thoughts, anxieties and emotions up into consciousness.
A lot has been learned about how what we think we know about what moves us is wrong. And much has also been learned about how what we don't know we know can influence us. Psychologist Susan Courtney has an absolutely terrific article in Scientific American titled "Not So Deliberate: The decisive power of what you don't know you know." We excerpt portions of her article below.
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When we choose between two courses of action, are we aware of all the things that influence that decision? Particularly when deliberation leads us to take a less familiar or more difficult course, scientists often refer to a decision as an act of "cognitive control." Such calculated decisions were once assumed to be influenced only by consciously perceived information, especially when the decision involved preparation for some action. But a recent paper by Hakwan Lau and Richard Passingham, "Unconscious Activation of the Cognitive Control System in the Human Prefrontal Cortex," demonstrates that the influences we are not aware of can hold greater sway than those we can consciously reject.
Biased competition
We make countless "decisions" each day without conscious deliberation. For example, when we gaze at an unfamiliar scene, we cannot take in all the information at once. Objects in the scene compete for our attention. If we're looking around with no particular goal in mind, we tend to focus on the objects most visually different from their surrounding background (for example, a bright bird against a dark backdrop) or those that experience or evolution have taught us are the most important, such as sudden movement or facial features — particularly threatening or fearful expressions. If we do have a goal, then our attention will be drawn to objects related to it, such as when we attend to anything red or striped in a "Where's Waldo" picture. Stimulus-driven and goal-driven influences alike, then, bias the outcome of the competition for our attention among a scene's many aspects.
The idea of such biased competition (a term coined in 1995 by Robert Desimone and John Duncan, also applies to situations in which we decide among many possible actions, thoughts or plans. What might create an unconscious bias affecting these types of competition?
For starters, previous experience in a situation can make some neural connections stronger than others, tipping the scales in favor of a previously performed action. The best-known examples of this kind of bias are habitual actions (as examined in a seminal 1995 article by Salmon and Butters and what is known as priming.
Habitual actions are what they sound like — driving your kids to school, you turn right on Elm because that's how you get there every day. No conscious decision is involved. In fact, it takes considerable effort to remember to instead turn left if your goal is to go somewhere else.
Priming works a bit differently; it's less a well-worn route than a prior suggestion that steers you a certain way. If I ask you today to tell me the first word that comes to mind that starts with the letters mot and you answer mother, you'll probably answer the same way if I ask you the same thing again four months from now, even if you have no explicit recollection of my asking the question. The prior experience primes you to repeat your performance. Other potentially unconscious influences are generally emotional or motivational.
Of course, consciously processed information can override these emotional and experience-driven biases if we devote enough time and attention to the decision. Preparing to perform a cognitive action ("task set") has traditionally been considered a deliberate act of control and part of this reflective, evaluative neural system. (See, for example, the 2002 review by Rees, Kreiman and Koch — pdf download.) As such, it was thought that task-set preparation was largely immune to subconscious influences.
We generally accept it as okay that some of our actions and emotional or motivational states are influenced by neural processes that happen without our awareness. For example, it aids my survival if subliminally processed stimuli increase my state of vigilance — if, for example, I jump out of the way before I am consciously aware that the thing at my feet is a snake. But we tend to think of more conscious decisions differently. If I have time to recognize an instruction, remember what that means I'm supposed to do and prepare to make a particular kind of judgment on the next thing I see, then the assumption is that this preparation must be based entirely on what I think I saw — not what I wasn't even aware of.
Yet Lau and Passingham have found precisely the opposite in their study — that information we're not aware of can more strongly influence even the most deliberative, non-emotional sort of decision even more than does information we are aware of.
Confusing cues
Lau and Passingham had their subjects perform one of two tasks: when shown a word on a screen, the subjects had to decide either a) whether or not the word referred to a concrete object or b) whether or not the word had two syllables. A cue given just before each word — the appearance of either a square of a diamond — indicated whether to perform the concrete judgment task or the syllables task. These instruction cues were in turn preceded by smaller squares or diamonds that the subjects were told were irrelevant. A variation in timing between the first and second cues determined whether the participants were aware of seeing both cues or only the second.
As you would expect, the task was more difficult when the cues were the not same — that is, when a diamond preceded a square or a square a diamond. The surprising finding was that this confusion effect was greater when the timing between the cues was so close that the participants didn't consciously notice the first cue. When the cues were mixed but the subjects were consciously aware of only the second instruction, their responses — and their brain activity as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) — indicated that the "invisible" conflicting cue had made them more likely to prepare to do the "wrong" task. Although similar effects have been shown on tasks that involved making a decision about the appearance of the image immediately following the "invisible" image, this is the first time this effect has been demonstrated for complex task preparation.
It may not be surprising that we juggle multiple influences when we make decisions, including many of which we are not aware — particularly when the decisions involve emotional issues. Lau and Passingham, however, show us that even seemingly rational, straightforward, conscious decisions about arbitrary matters can easily be biased by inputs coming in below our radar of awareness. Although it wasn't directly tested in this study, the results suggest that being aware of a misleading cue may allow us to inhibit its influence. And the study makes clear that influences we are not aware of (including, but not limited to, those brought in by experience and emotion) can sneak into our decisions unchecked.
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Susan Courtney is an associate professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, where she runs the Courtney Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience and Working Memory. To read some related Situationist posts, see "The Situation of Confabulation," "The Situation of Constitutional Beliefs – Abstract," "Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Processes," "Jonathan Haidt on the Situation of Moral Reasoning," "The Unconscious Situation of our Consciousness – Part IV,"and "Unconscious Situation of Choice."
This post was originally published in November of 2007.


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Harrison Ford won't talk 'Star Wars' sequels but praises director J.J. Abrams
LOS ANGELES – Harrison Ford isn't ready — "yet" — to talk about his reported part in Disney's planned "Star Wars" sequel, but he praises its director, J.J. Abrams.
"I think he's fantastic," Ford said in a recent interview. "I did his first movie, 'Regarding Henry,' with Mike Nichols. A wonderful talent. Extraordinary guy."
The 70-year-old actor — who came to fame playing Han Solo in the "Star Wars" trilogy — is shrugging off questions about that character while promoting his role as Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey in the upcoming Jackie Robinson film "42."
Asked how he feels generally that the "Star Wars" sequel and Disney spinoffs are in the works, Ford responded: "I don't feel anything at the moment yet."
In an article published earlier this month, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas told Bloomberg Businessweek that Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher had been in negotiations to return to the franchise even before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney last fall.
Was Ford surprised by that announcement? He makes the universal zipping-my-lips sign. Asked what it will take to get him to commit to play Han Solo again, Ford said, "Um, I don't even want to discuss that. It's great. Ain't it great?"
It's been over two decades since Abrams wrote the "Regarding Henry" screenplay. Have the two chatted recently?
"About what?" Ford asked, smirking and taking a slow sip from a cup.


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- Web pages: CPM-Spectre: Trevor Gowen's Home Page. These now include a link to exported pages from a MoinMoin wiki that runs on my first† Raspberry Pi, and which contains notes w.r.t. various "projects" or hardware I'm trying out - mainly various USB devices/adapters that I'd aquired some time ago. (Last import 17.11.2012, including "work in progress" and a brief look at RISC OS Pi‡. USB Power Supply/Powered Hubs measurements largely completed.).
†I now have a second, recent "Model B" with 512Mb of RAM (Which was replaced by Farnell after it suffered SD card socket failure)
‡Which allowed me to resurrect the BBC Basic/NC200 version of my "Aid to Electronic Circuit Design Program Package". (IIRC the first version ran via teletype on a mainframe at Q.M.C. in the mid-1970's)


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Durkin promoted to Florida defensive coordinator
In a matter of only hours Thursday, the Florida Gators lost one defensive coordinator and gained another.
Not long after the news broke that Dan Quinn was returning to the NFL to become the Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator, UF coach Will Muschamp announced the promotion of linebackers coach and special teams coordinator D.J. Durkin to defensive coordinator.
"I'm happy for Dan and this opportunity," Muschamp said in a UF news release. "I've said before that I always encourage my staff when opportunities arise to take the next step in their career. Dan's background is in the NFL and this is a great chance to go back to a place he's familiar with.
"D.J. and I will run the defense, continuing the way that Dan and I did for the past two years. We will look to add another coach that is the best fit for our staff moving forward."
Durkin, who was brought to UF by Urban Meyer in 2010, will continue to coach the UF linebackers. Promoting Durkin also should help the Gators preserve their defensive recruiting class. Durkin is considered one of the strongest recruiters on the UF staff.
"I wish Coach Quinn the best. A pretty big loss, but life goes on. We'll be fine," UF defensive back commit Keanu Neal wrote on his Twitter account.
Defensive end commit Jordan Sherit tweeted: "It's still Muschamp's defense. I wish Coach Quinn nothing but the best, one of the realest coaches I've ever met. Go Gators."
With so many job openings in the NFL, coupled with the job Quinn has done in making Florida's defense one of the best in college football, it seemed inevitable that Quinn would have an opportunity to return to pro football as a defensive coordinator soon.
That opportunity came Thursday.
Only hours after Seattle defensive coordinator Gus Bradley was announced as the Jacksonville Jaguars new head coach, the Seahawks announced on Twitter that they had replaced Bradley with Quinn, who served as the team's defensive line coach under Bradley for two years before coming to UF in 2011.
Muschamp announced Durkin's promotion to defensive coordinator only a few hours later.
In the second season under Quinn, the Florida defense emerged as one of the strongest in the nation in 2012, finishing the season fifth in the nation in scoring defense (14.5 points a game) and in total defense (287.5 yards a game). The Gators also were No. 2 in the nation in pass efficiency defense.
Quinn said near the end of the season that he was really enjoying his college coaching experience and could see himself remaining at UF for a considerable time. He said one of the great things about the job was developing young players.
But the opportunity to return the Seattle as the defensive coordinator was too good for Quinn to pass up. He had a chance to become the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' defensive coordinator a year ago, but elected to stay at UF instead.
Quinn signed an amended contract with UF last February that ran through the 2013 season. His annual salary was going to be increased from $490,000 to $510,000 on Feb. 1. And if Quinn had stayed on the job until Jan. 31, 2014, he would have received a bonus of $80,000.


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A Suggestion with Merit
Washington PA
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3 February 2013
It's been more than seven years since Ryerson Station State Park's 62-acre Duke Lake was drained after inspections by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources revealed expanding cracks in the 45-year-old concrete dam.
Since then, the DCNR filed a claim against Consol Energy suggesting the damage was caused by the company's Bailey Mine, which was engaged in longwall mining near the park.
The state Department of Environmental Protection, which investigated the claim, determined the damage was caused by mining and ordered Consol to restore the dam, and, not surprisingly, Consol, which denied its activities caused the damage, appealed DEP's decision to the state Environmental Hearing Board, where the case is scheduled for trial in May.
The last thing anyone wants to see is this contentious and protracted issue becoming ever more mired in a legal morass.
What gives us hope this will not occur were comments made Jan. 26 at a public meeting at Waynesburg University held by attorney Thomas Rutter, a mediator hired to negotiate a settlement in the litigation.
More than 40 people spoke about the importance of the lake to area residents and the need for it to be restored. It was encouraging that many of those who spoke did not use the forum to castigate Consol but to tell the mediator how important the lake is to the community and to area residents and that it should be restored no matter who is at fault.
One speaker's comments seemed to capture the tenor of the daylong hearing. Greene County Commissioner Blair Zimmerman said, "That was a destination for us as a family," and that he frequently took his children to the park. The lake's restoration is long overdue, Zimmerman said. "It's our park and we want it back the way it was."
The Rev. Donald Wilson shared a similar sentiment but was more pointed in his remarks. He said, "Too often, Greene County has been viewed as a forgotten area, neglected, overlooked, unimportant," he said. "The way the dam sits now, that's precisely what it says." Restoring the lake will help restore pride; people will say 'This is our area and we're proud of it, we're happy to be here.'"
It's easy to understand the community's desire to see the dam restored, but a different perspective came to light when Jim Goroncy, a Consol miner, spoke. He said everyone wants the lake to be restored for the recreational opportunities it offers the community. But he also asked where the county would be without the coal and natural gas industries, which provide jobs, a tax base and business for local stores.
We would guess these were the types of comments Rutter wanted to hear, especially if he anticipates heading off lengthy and expensive litigation.
He explained his thinking: having Consol pay the full costs of replacing the dam and, in return, they would be allowed to drill for Marcellus Shale gas, not in the park, but from property the company owns adjacent to park property.
The company also would donate property it now owns adjacent to the park, about 560 acres, to the state to increase the total park acreage, he said.
We think Rutter's suggestion has a great deal of merit, yet we also don't think Consol will go quietly. Perhaps Rutter's carrot might be just what the coal company was waiting for. But if Consol holds to its position that "we don't believe (the damage was) mine related," then don't expect to see bulldozers at Ryerson Station State Park anytime soon.


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Ken Burns' 'The Roosevelts' to open PBS season
LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS said Thursday its fall season will open with a binge-viewing opportunity: a seven-part Ken Burns documentary on the Roosevelt political dynasty.
"The Roosevelts: An Intimate History," will air as two-hour episodes over seven nights, beginning Sept. 14. Each episode will be repeated nightly and the show will be widely available for post-air online viewing, said Beth Hoppe, PBS chief programming executive.
"I think it's the best thing Ken's done since 'The Civil War,'" Hoppe said. "He thinks it might be the best thing he's ever done."
"The viewer experience is changing and we're trying to dish this up as an epic binge," Hoppe said of the series about U.S. presidents and cousins Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and FDR's wife, Eleanor.
The Burns family itself will be well-represented on public TV's schedule, with brother Ric Burns' "The Pilgrims," airing Nov. 25, Thanksgiving week. The "American Experience" film will examine what compelled English men and women to voyage to a new land in 1620.
PBS, whose average household rating for the season to date puts it at No. 7 among all broadcast and cable channels, won't have drama ratings champ "Downton Abbey" back on until January. But there's a full slate of fall alternatives.
Among them is "Death Comes to Pemberley," based on novelist P.D. James' sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and starring Matthew Rhys ("The Americans") and Anna Maxwell Martin. It airs Oct. 26 and Nov. 2.
Bill Nighy will return as British spy Johnny Worricker, seen in 2011's "Page Eight," in two new stories. He'll be joined by Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder, Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes in the shows airing Nov. 9 and 16.
Arts programming will remain the focus of PBS' Friday night schedule, with two series, "Live from Lincoln Center" and "Austin City Limits," marking their 40th anniversaries.
A March performance by Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in "Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," in concert with the New York Philharmonic, will open the "Lincoln Center" season on Sept. 26.
PBS' announcement preceded commercial network presentations of fall schedules to Madison Avenue next week. PBS and its stations are supported by a combination of funding that includes private donations and other sources, along with federal funding administered by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that provides about 15 percent of local station budgets.
Other PBS fall highlights:
— A production of "Porgy and Bess" from the San Francisco Opera on Oct. 17, starring Eric Owens and soprano Laquita Mitchell.
— "How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson," about the people responsible for remarkable ideas that shaped modern life, including what we eat and where we live. The series debuts Oct. 15.
— Season two of "Finding Your Roots," with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. helping people identify unknown ancestors. It debuts Sept. 23.
— "Makers," a six-documentary look at groundbreaking American women in the arenas of war, space, business, politics, Hollywood and comedy. It begins Sept. 30.
— The "Masterpiece Mystery!" showcase, which includes the Sept. 21 return of "Miss Marple," starring Julia McKenzie, and a seventh season of "Inspector Lewis" with Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox, starting Oct. 5.